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.TH "PERF_4.17\-TIMECHART" "1" "2018\-05\-29" "perf" "perf Manual"
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.SH "NAME"
perf-timechart \- Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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There are two variants of perf timechart:
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\*(Aqperf timechart record <command>\*(Aq to record the system level events
of an arbitrary workload\&. By default timechart records only scheduler
and CPU events (task switches, running times, CPU power states, etc),
but it\*(Aqs possible to record IO (disk, network) activity using \-I argument\&.
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\*(Aqperf timechart\*(Aq to turn a trace into a Scalable Vector Graphics file,
that can be viewed with popular SVG viewers such as \*(AqInkscape\*(Aq\&. Depending
on the events in the perf\&.data file, timechart will contain scheduler/cpu
events or IO events\&.
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In IO mode, every bar has two charts: upper and lower\&.
Upper bar shows incoming events (disk reads, ingress network packets)\&.
Lower bar shows outgoing events (disk writes, egress network packets)\&.
There are also poll bars which show how much time application spent
in poll/epoll/select syscalls\&.
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.SH "TIMECHART OPTIONS"
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\-o, \-\-output=
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Select the output file (default: output\&.svg)
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\-i, \-\-input=
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Select the input file (default: perf\&.data unless stdin is a fifo)
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\-w, \-\-width=
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Select the width of the SVG file (default: 1000)
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\-P, \-\-power\-only
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Only output the CPU power section of the diagram
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\-T, \-\-tasks\-only
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Don\(cqt output processor state transitions
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\-p, \-\-process
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Select the processes to display, by name or PID
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\-f, \-\-force
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Don\(cqt complain, do it\&.
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\-\-symfs=<directory>
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Look for files with symbols relative to this directory\&.
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\-n, \-\-proc\-num
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Print task info for at least given number of tasks\&.
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\-t, \-\-topology
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Sort CPUs according to topology\&.
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\-\-highlight=<duration_nsecs|task_name>
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Highlight tasks (using different color) that run more than given duration or tasks with given name\&. If number is given it\(cqs interpreted as number of nanoseconds\&. If non\-numeric string is given it\(cqs interpreted as task name\&.
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\-\-io\-skip\-eagain
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Don\(cqt draw EAGAIN IO events\&.
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\-\-io\-min\-time=<nsecs>
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Draw small events as if they lasted min\-time\&. Useful when you need to see very small and fast IO\&. It\(cqs possible to specify ms or us suffix to specify time in milliseconds or microseconds\&. Default value is 1ms\&.
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\-\-io\-merge\-dist=<nsecs>
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Merge events that are merge\-dist nanoseconds apart\&. Reduces number of figures on the SVG and makes it more render\-friendly\&. It\(cqs possible to specify ms or us suffix to specify time in milliseconds or microseconds\&. Default value is 1us\&.
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.SH "RECORD OPTIONS"
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\-P, \-\-power\-only
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Record only power\-related events
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\-T, \-\-tasks\-only
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Record only tasks\-related events
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\-I, \-\-io\-only
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Record only io\-related events
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\-g, \-\-callchain
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Do call\-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording
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.SH "EXAMPLES"
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$ perf timechart record git pull
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[ perf record: Woken up 13 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 4\&.253 MB perf\&.data (~185801 samples) ]
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$ perf timechart
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Written 10\&.2 seconds of trace to output\&.svg\&.
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Record system\-wide timechart:
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$ perf timechart record
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then generate timechart and highlight \*(Aqgcc\*(Aq tasks:
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$ perf timechart \-\-highlight gcc
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Record system\-wide IO events:
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$ perf timechart record \-I
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then generate timechart:
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$ perf timechart
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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\fBperf_4.17-record\fR(1)